Information is Beautiful Challenge #3 - FilmStrips. Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! Eurostat - European Statistic Database. eXplorerDemo. Gapminder - Statistic Imagery. David McCandless - Statistics Imagery. Hans Rosling- TED Profile. We Feel Fine - Emotion Statistics. Crime Mapping San Francisco. Notice anything different? We’ve been working on the interface design, read more about it on the blog. San Francisco Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in San Francisco and a tool for understanding crime in cities. If you hear sirens in your neighborhood, you should know why. Crimespotting makes this possible with interactive maps and RSS feeds of crimes in areas that you care about.
We’ve found ourselves frustrated by the proprietary systems and long disclaimers that ultimately limit information available to the public. As citizens we have a right to public information. A clear understanding of our environment is essential to an informed citizenry. Instead of simply knowing where a crime took place, we would like to investigate questions like: Is there more crime this week than last week? If the local papers didn’t report a rash of car break-ins in your neighborhood, how would you know? We believe that civic data should be exposed to the public in a more open way.